A Texas man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Colorado last week for murdering his girlfriend after she tried to break off their relationship, court officials said. Following a ...

A Texas woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday for watching her 8-year-old son be murdered and then making three of her other children live with the decomposing body. Gloria Williams ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s staffing shortages harm the safety of staff, inmates, and the public, state lawmakers found in a new report, as the nation’s largest state prison ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s staffing shortages harm the safety of staff, inmates, and the public, state lawmakers found in a new report, as the nation’s largest state ...

About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for ...

Homeless prison leavers are twice as likely to reoffend than those with a permanent place to live, official figures released for the first time show. Statistics published by the Ministry of ...

Melissa Lucio may be set free after findings that prosecutors withheld evidence that her 2-year-old died of an accidental ...

Texas man sentenced to life in prison after his sixth DWI 5 previous DWI convictions, all in Texas, in 1986, 1993, 2001, 2007, and 2017 Defense attorney in Austin questions whether life sentences ...

A year ago, Belissa Escobedo would spot the posters of network shows like NBC’s “Lopez vs. Lopez” plastered on gritty subway station walls in New York City. “I wish,” she would tell ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A Mega Millions ticket sold in Texas won $3 million and narrowly missed the $361 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers and the ...